Given For You...; Luke 22:19-20

Delivered during the Sunday Morning Worship Service, 8/3/2025. After discreetly arranging for the location where He would enjoy the last Passover Meal with His disciples, Jesus dramatically changes the liturgy to institute the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. He adds deep significance to the bread and wine of the Passover meal by associating them with His own body and blood-- soon to be freely given as a sacrificial, substitutionary atonement on the Cross. At the same time, He inaugurates the New Covenant, consummating all the covenants that come before it in one of the most important events of Redemptive History. We will carefully analyze each of these elements, digging deep into their Old Testament imagery and probing the profound Theological, Christological and Soteriological meaning of each. But ultimately, we will celebrate the intensely personal nature of the sacrament by realizing that Jesus, through His Word, was speaking directly to each true believer when He said His body and blood were "given for you..."!